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spontaneous symmetry breaking

physical phenomenon in which the vacuum expectation value of a field is not invariant under a symmetry of the action, so that a symmetry present at high temperatures is broken at low temperatures
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spontaneous symmetry breaking

Summary

spontaneous symmetry breaking ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (300 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's subclass of is recorded as symmetry breaking[2].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Commons category is recorded as Spontaneous symmetry breaking[3].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01rg83[4].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Spontaneous symmetry breaking[5].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Quora topic ID is recorded as Spontaneous-Symmetry-Breaking[6].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as spontant_symmetribrudd[7].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[8].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 125881977[9].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Lex ID is recorded as spontant_symmetribrud[10].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 자발 대칭 깨짐[11].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C125881977[12].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 144216[13].
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as spontannoe-narushenie-simmetrii-2c14bb[14].

Why It Matters

spontaneous symmetry breaking ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (300 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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